Tourism Law

Majorca has very big tourist demand which continues to grow.

The tourist activity in residential housing is regulated and establishes that only standalone housing may be used for tourist stays - houses such as single-family detached houses, attached single-family houses (a unique unit on each plot of land) and semi-detached houses.

In the case of semi-detached houses in a condominium development, the bylaws must not prevent tourist lease.

Flats in multi-residential buildings or attached multi-unit housing with separate titles, are not considered isolated independent housing, consequently it is prohibited to commercialize tourist stays in this type of housing.

Airbnb data for Mallorca

Inside Airbnb

Inside Airbnb provides data compiled from the Airbnb web-site for listings available for Mallorca.

A conservative occupancy model has been built in order to estimate Occupancy Rates, Income per Month and Nights per Year. More information on the methodolgy of the occupancy model can be found in the disclaimers.

Inside Airbnb: Mallorca uses the following parameters:

A high availability metric and filter of 60 days per year

A frequently rented filter of 60 days per year

A review rate of 50% for the number of guests making a booking who leave a review

An average booking of 3 nights unless a higher minimum nights is configured for a listing.

A maximum occupancy rate of 70% to ensure the occupancy model does not produce artifically high results based on the available data

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Airbnb

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Other data

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Availability

An Airbnb host can setup a calendar for their listing so that it is only available for a few days or weeks a year.

Other listings are available all year round (except for when it is already booked).

Entire homes or apartments highly available year-round for tourists, probably don't have the owner present, could be illegal, and more importantly, are displacing residents.

Only multi-listings

Listings per Host

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multi-listings

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single listings

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multi-listings

Some Airbnb hosts have multiple listings.

A host may list separate rooms in the same apartment, or multiple apartments or homes available in their entirity.

Hosts with multiple listings are more likely to be running a business, are unlikely to be living in the property, and in violation of most short term rental laws designed to protect residential housing.